Collection: Adult Non-Fiction Hardback

The extraordinary true story of a mother's dedication to reveal the lies, deceit and corruption, which surround her son's untimely death.

Am unflinching account of life at the heart of politics, and what it's like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. It's a story of high hopes and dirty tricks, broken friendships and divided loyalties, laughter and glamour. Recollections, as a great woman once said, may of course vary, ...

Crystals provide a gentle, non-invasive form of healing that co-operates with your body's inner healer, a repair mechanism that brings mind and body back into balance. Working through the transmission of energy and the adjustment of subtle vibrations, crystals absorb, focus, transmute and transmi...

Donna Leon's memoir, 'Wandering Through Life', gave her legions of fans a colourful tour through her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, to her love of Venice and opera. Nowhere, however, did she discuss her writing life. In 'Backstage', Donna reveals her admiratio...

The mid-seventies were dense with extraordinarily sophisticated, mature rock music made by singers, songwriters and musicians who had no problem calling themselves artists. And the records they made aspired to artistic status: everyone was trying to make their own masterpiece, and the sense of co...

A riotously entertaining and authoritative look at the music of Oasis, by two journalists who have interviewed Noel and Liam dozens of times.

The value of peat bogs as a natural resource and haven of biodiversity is undisputed, yet few of us have been lucky enough to experience their beauty and richness. In 'Peatlands', Wainwright Prize-shortlisted author Alys Fowler calls for us to sink deep into the dark, black soils of these rugged ...

John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. In 20 short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of th...

Food is never just food. It is freighted with our upbringings, our heritage and our sense of self. It carries memories, both happy and sad; it transports and it anchors. Jimi Famurewa spends his days hunting out the very best food London has to offer. But as a child, he hid gobbets of mash in his...

Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. 'The Point of the Needle' redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing's place in our lives. It celebrates not only sewing's recent resurgence but sewists' creativi...